Improved thread-guard



duftet tstet @mi @um :GEORGE W. `DALBY, OFl CARROLLTON, MISSISSIPPI.

Letters .Patent No. 90,155,1lated May 18, 1869.

` f `IIMIPRO'VIEIID The Schedule referred to in these Letters P atent and making part of the same.

Tc all 'whom tt 'ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGEW. DALBEY, of Carrollton, inthe county of Carroll, and State of Mississippi,

have invented a new and uscfullmprovernent in Thread- Guards; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawsn ings, forming part of this specification.

`This invention relates to a new and useful improvement inan article for female use, and consists in a eylindrical guard for, enclosing a spool of thread,sthe. `cylinder being' parted r cut, so as to spring `around the spool, and with its 4,edge notched, so as to form a cutter-'for the thread, as will be hereinafter described.

Inthe accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 represents -the guard enclosing the spool,

` i the guard being formed so as to lap over at the ends `tions of an open cylinder, with lips B at each end, for

holding' the spool, as seen in the drawing. In fig. 1 the parts lap over, so' as Vto prevent the thread from running off the spool.

C represents the notch, the shoulder of which is a i cutting-edge forsevering the thread.`

This guard is readily opened, so as to prevent Vthe lips B from interfering with the" spool where it is inseited. The guards spring over and secure it, so that while the spool cannot',y slip from the guard, it may freely revolve as the threadis drawn oil'. The guard protects the thread, keeps it clean, and prevents its un winding and becoming tangled, beside affording ready' means `for cutting .the thread.

Havingthu's described my invention, vI claim as 4Vnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Y v The guard A, with the lips B and the cutters C, arranged s'nbstantially as and for the purposes herein shown and described. f

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this`24th day of' February, 1869.

- GEO. W. DALBEY.

Witnesses: JOHN S. KENT, J oHN MOWRY. 

